I don't really know the camera either Gianluca.
Apparently when cleaning the ground glass I reassembled the Fresnel/GG sandwich wrong. This means earlier shots would have been affected. This time I also angled the lens board to the front face of the house (Pete didn't think that would matter)...
Another thing I did different was to focus with the lens wide open - I then stopped down prior to exposing the frame.
I think having the loupe allowed me to view the minute focus changes from the windows to the garage door. I wonder if my attempt to split the difference resulted in not getting...
For this shot I angled the lens board to align with the front of the house. This was shot at f/22 for 1/30th second. Fomapan 100. I also used a Carson 4.5x loupe that essentially covered the entire ground glass. The Fresnel/Ground Glass sandwich has been corrected from previous tests. Focus was...
The time below the image must represent the time the image was posted?
I like the shot with the larger set of clouds as it seems to allow the shot to breathe more!
I should get the larger loupe tomorrow but I'm not sure I'll be shooting any test shots tomorrow...
[Sunday edit] well the large loupe did indeed arrive yesterday and while not quite a large as the Horseman shown in Pete's link, it is also pretty huge (and won't sit flat against my ground...
Did 17's ever fly in a polished aluminum dress?
I saw the Memphis Belle up close years ago in Memphis when my company jet enroute to Cookeville, TN couldn't land due to weather.
Hi Pete! I now understand what the white and orange scales are.
My lens has a "switch" up to focus = full open/down closes the aperture so it opens to whatever is set when you shoot.
It is possible that the sandwich of my gg/Fresnel has been a part of my problem. It seems that with my gg...